Transferable Peer Review Pilot

On average, peer review takes 80 days1. That’s 1,920 hours of waiting for a decision. And it all starts over if your paper gets rejected.

We think that’s a long time. We know you do too.

So, why not review a paper just once? If your paper is rejected, the review travels with it.

We call this transferable peer review and we’re rolling it out across 9 of our high impact, neuroscience journals.

Submit to one of these journals and your paper will be reviewed as usual, but with the addition of a scorecard that will be used by all 9 titles. If your paper is rejected, you can choose to transfer your paper along with the review and scorecard to another journal in the pilot, and receive a speedier decision.

We believe that this system will save authors, reviewers and editors valuable time, significantly increasing the speed to publication for many papers.